2011

Greetings friends.

April 21, 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of
the passing of
Dr Sir John Whitman Ray. I had considered making this the
last of my annual tributes, but as I look back on previous posts I see an
important body of principle accumulating, and so it is that I will continue
to post these each year while the need remains. The need is certainly
present at this time.

Before we begin, a reminder that the homage I pay is to
the principles taught by Dr Ray. As he would no doubt include himself in
describing us as, “delightful deviations from the norm,” we would do well to
look beyond our perceptions of his human being and actions in life. Indeed,
some have struggled to rationalise his humanity with his teachings and have
essentially “thrown out the baby with the bath water”.

While we may benefit from having a spiritually enlightened master in our
presence, to learn from by precept and example, the reality facing most of
us is that we seldom knowingly have this opportunity. So do we just sit around and wait,
perhaps casting stones, or
spend a lifetime forever searching, or do we get on with our life?

Of course, we are the ones responsible for our own
progress and it behoves us to gratefully take the initiative with what we
have available.

So, although we owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Dr
Ray for taking the slings and arrows as we grappled with our own humanity,
we owe our allegiance to the principles and, more than this, allegiance to
the revelation we are all individually capable of receiving as an outgrowth
of applying whatever we have to the best of our ability. Christ said it of
his own teachings, in the Essene Gospel of Peace, and I say it now of Dr
Ray’s teachings – the teachings as words or as abstract principles are dead;
what lives is the Spirit of God that is invested in them or that moves amongst
us.

If we apply the principles blindly or without faith, or with no
conscious determination to be aware of and receptive to the Spirit of God to
direct us in our application of those principles, there will be no
understanding arising from the experience, no revelation, no illumination.

All illumination comes from Above, that is, from the Spirit of God, and not
from within our own minds, no matter how much effort we apply. For all our
intellectual prowess and experience that we may accrue over a lifetime (or
more), we have nothing in the way of understanding the true Laws of Heaven
and of Life if we do not receive this illumination or Grace. We may
understand the physics or science of a thing but this is no more real than
trying to understand what it is like to drive a car by simply looking at a
photograph of one.

Having spent 15 years as a
Body Electronics
practitioner teaching correct principle, as we were taught by John to do,
I wish today to go one further step with you. The time is right now.
This is the time, the year, the month, day, hour, minute and second to
stop waiting, to put aside your idle intellectual desire to understand, and
instead take matters into your own hands with a receptivity to the Spirit of
God, even as you read this. As John has often said, “You already know what to do,” so why not do
it now?

You already know what to do

Okay, so you feel like you don’t know what to
do. But you do. You’d like me to tell you what to do. But I
can’t. Only you know what to do, and can do it, as little as you may
want this responsibility or as little as you may believe yourself capable.

So today I present you with a simple two-step programme
if you want to step up and be counted.

Step one – experience life just as it is.

Step two – take constructive action.

Step one – experience life just as it is

If we had experienced life just as it is, lovingly and
willingly, we would not be in the compromised position we are in today, for
as we look back with an honest eye we will see the wreckage strewn in the
path behind us, the experiences we did not deal with constructively and
their fallout. Similarly, as we look forward we may see the looming clouds,
as the continuation of this fallout.

We have a choice in every experience to willingly be in
it or to resist or try to push it away. If we look at our track record we
will see that in a large number of cases we have somewhat resisted our
experiences or, at the very least, been quite selective as to which
experiences we will embrace and which we would rather not have had. In
other words, we have evaluated each situation on its merits in determining
whether or not to enjoy it. We may think of this as our identification with
matter or identification with yin energies, those energies relating to the
outer world, or effect end of creation. In other words, rather than
choosing how we will be in a situation, we allow the situation to dictate to
us how we should feel. “He makes me angry,” “I am scared of that thing,” “I
feel so tired when that happens,” etc. In our own mind it seems reasonable that
external events justify our behaviour, belief or feeling. Thus we are at
the mercy of our environment, first driven one way and then another, with
only an illusion that we are in control.

Although experience may give us the benefit of
hindsight, where we would have done it differently if we could do it again,
we continue to suppose that circumstances dictate actions, just not the ones
we took. We have somewhat of a vicious circle, since our actions of
yesterday become a potent force in creating our experiences of tomorrow. No
matter how well we manage to pick up the pieces of one mishandled situation,
we find another one being created. This is our karma, where a creation has
been set into motion by us but never fully resolved or completed and so it
circulates in and out of our awareness until such time as we consciously bring it to an
end. The problem is that we cannot end it if every time it appears we are
more concerned with its outer appearance, or yin nature, than our
responsibility for it and determination to love it unconditionally. In
other words, it is not just the circumstance of karma that requires
completion, but the creative force behind it, its yang nature. This
yang aspect does not lie outside us in our environment or external
experience, but within us in our internal experience. It is not
about “having all our ducks in a row,” as much as what our attitude
to our ducks is, whether they be in a row or not.

Thus in absolutely every experience of life, great or
small, there is one thing to do first and foremost, which is to be in it
fully. If we resist it at all then we cannot fully experience it and
therefore cannot come to a knowledge of it in every aspect or see beyond the
yin energy being presented to us. The yang creative essence that we must
resolve cannot be exposed while we have, through any form of resistance,
unawareness of the entirety of the yin. Thus, be immersed in your
experiences, not merely from the position of an observer, but as a
participant.

If you assume the position of observer alone, you again
perpetuate the karma or yin manifestation of yang energy by falling back
into the pattern of your actions and feelings which you allow to be dictated
by outer experiences. To lovingly and willingly endure an experience
requires us to go beyond passive observation to determined active faith that
the experience is Perfect Divine Order. In this way we begin to see beyond
the outer appearance alone, towards the creative energies behind it.

This attitude or activity of being in your experiences
lovingly and willingly as both observer and faithful participant is
particularly poignant as we consider the string of catastrophes that have
occurred on the planet over the last year – it seems barely a month goes by
without a major earthquake, flood, fire, tsunami, tornado, hurricane, or volcanic eruption.
Even when there is significant loss of life, if we cannot take a position
that all is Perfect Divine Order and be in the experience, insofar as it is
presented to us, then we are defaulting to the position of observer and perpetuater through our resistance to experiencing the creative energy behind it.

Okay, so we have feelings because of what we observe –
I guess we’re yet human afterall. Although our goal is to choose our
feeling (love) we can in the meantime be realistic that we may not be in
this place immediately or every time. Certain experiences are beyond our
current capacity to lovingly and willingly endure, at least that’s how we
may see it and perhaps this is so. In this case we should take one step back and instead of
fooling ourselves that we can love the “unlovable”, choose to look at our
less-than-love feelings as their own experience – can we be in this
experience of our feelings and love them? Thus we can be in an experience to
the best of our ability and, as part of that external experience, realise
that we are having a reaction and then be okay with that. It is putting the
cart before the horse to think we can be in an experience while
simultaneously “stuffing” or ignoring our feelings about it.

Therefore, can we allow ourselves to be in a
position of hating or grieving or feeling like giving up, being fearful,
etc? What is this feeling like? Can you love it? Yes you can, but will
you? If and when you can do this then you may become a far more perceptive
observer as a steppingstone to being a faithful participator, that you
eventually become aware of the yang inner creative essence. Of course, you
must then also know
how to encompass duality, which is a conversation for
another day, to completely bring that creative cycle to an end, but even
without this you can at least stop being the effect of your environment.

So much for step one. We could of course expand on the
principles and practicalities of this indefinitely, but there is already
enough here to go out and put into practice. Start now – what experience
are you having right now that you are not properly in? Begin to be in it
now; stop holding it at arm’s length. It won’t really go away, no matter
how much you resist; quite the opposite. Stop trying to make it or wanting
it to go away – it’s here so be in it and love it in every way that you can.

Step two - taking constructive action

Now for step 2, taking constructive action.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we must
also make deliberate efforts to put order into our life. This is the means
by which we remove the clutter of simple but incomplete items so we build
our capacity for faith and love, hence making us more effective at step
one. We won’t need step two nearly so much when we do a
better job of step one. However, here we are, so let’s
do it. This, of course, is all about
The List; not a list, The
List.

The moment you determine to be in your experiences
(that’s right now, remember?), you begin to become aware of all sorts of
things that become a mounting list of reasons not to be in the
experience, thus we become entrapped as the effect of the world again –
identified with matter. Wouldn’t it be great if, rather than constantly
being on the receiving end of “sneak attacks” from our karma, we could
instead clear a path ahead of us before having to walk it? This is
exactly what The List does. It’s a kind of “karmic trailblazer”, clearing
all the little obstacles or potholes on the path ahead, which gives us less
“reasons” to give in to the appearance world.

After some good experience with The List, it isn’t just
the little obstacles that you deal with, but some quite substantial ones
also, and in this way The List becomes part and parcel of your path, both
showing the way as well as making the way clear.

It’s all about constructive action focussed on the most
simple of things, those things where we are so confident of our success that
we can apply Faith in its fullest extent most easily.

I will not dwell on The List too much here, you can
read my other posts, you can read
my book all about The List, or you can
read Chapter 11 of John’s “Laws of Perfection” at another time. Right now,
let it suffice to say that the only way The List works is by doing it. I
know, you were hoping for a step two that only required you to read about
it. But nonetheless, here is the practical application of John’s words,
“You already know what to do,” and the reason why I can’t tell you what to
do. Plenty of people claim to know (or at least have limitless opinions)
what things are incomplete or in a state of disorder in your life, or what
you “should” do, but only you know what seems like a simple matter to
put right and only you know what seems right for you to do.

Until you get them all down on your List – the
impossible, the hard and the simple – and then order them from complex down
to simple, you have no perspective. If nothing else you can motivate
yourself into action by saying, “Well, I can’t do any of that stuff over
there but I better do something useful, so what here can I do?”
This isn’t the end game for your motivation, but it may well be the
beginning and the means by which you will eventually be able to discern with clarity
where to most constructively put your hand. Don’t be surprised by your
confusion of mind until this time – how can you see Right Action when you’re
identified with matter? This is not a reasonable expectation to start with,
so be okay with it. So we have to differentiate the end game of the Law of
Right Action from where we are right now, which is in our current
experience, whatever that may be.

Instant sainthood

John spoke of our desire for “Instant Sainthood”. What
is this? It’s our desire or belief that we can or should act perfectly as
soon as we learn of a principle. So people try to enforce a principle into
their life, which is not an act of faith, just blind compulsion and
resistance to one’s current experience. Don’t try this at home – you cannot
jump from chaos, disorder and resistance into perfection without embracing
things as they are first.

This is not to take away from any spiritual practice,
which may require us to do 50 saintly things before breakfast, just to put
into perspective that we have a practical reality which isn’t in front of us
for no good reason. Our spiritual practice or application of principle is
not meant to be an escape from life, but a facilitator of it so we can move
through it into a higher life. Instant sainthood is escapism, another
indication of our unwillingness to be here now, which is where we are, like
it or not. I hope you're starting to like it.

The irony is that if only we could be here now we would
see that everything already is perfect; it doesn’t need to be made
perfect. What we are perfecting then is our ability to realise our inherent
perfection and the perfection of all experience, by being in it, lovingly
and willingly.

We don’t need to be instant saints and neither should
we beat ourselves up over our inadequacies in various areas. What we do need
to do is to work on our sainthood diligently and tangibly by first starting
with something simple that we can achieve through faith, i.e. where we can
see the end from the beginning.

So, the principles, as we understand them as words or
concepts, are dead and as such nothing more than symbols in the outer yin
manifestation. The best we can hope to understand through yin principles is
the yin itself, but nothing of the true inner yang essence. A teacher of
such principles teaches not – he merely relates his partial observations of
the outer world.

A teacher who teaches such principles in faith,
according to direction from the Spirit of God, teaches truly, for those who
hear may receive (if they are willing and ready) not only the principles but
the Spirit of God itself, which alone illumines the mind. Herein the yin
principles are invested with the yang essence behind them, which explains
all cause and effect. The written or recorded words of this teacher are
also dead, in and of themselves, and but yin records, except to say, that
being directed by the Spirit of God, the true Seeker may again contact the
yang essence and through this come to a full understanding of yang and yin
principles expressed. There is no assurance this will happen, save the
seeker truly seeks, asks and knocks from a position of faith, regarding the
written or recorded teachings.

If we were perceptive, we would realise that to
experience life as it is includes experiencing not just the yin
manifestation, but the yang essence behind it also.

Initially, we will be satisfied with experiencing the
yin as it is. But, as has been stated, the end game requires us to receive
(and eventually recreate) the yang also – which indeed is why the practice
of Body Electronics on the table is our training ground for doing the same
exact thing in daily life. If you have taken this parallel with a grain of
salt before, do not do so now. We must Observe, Receive, Recreate and
Release every experience of life, both as a matter of re-experiencing memory
as well as in the present moment of experiencing life as it happens.

But how will we ensure that all that needs to
come to our conscious memory will? This will be the effect of taking
constructive action as guided by The List, for you will progressively and
sequentially deal with your karmic considerations, which underpin the bulk
of all traumatic experience. There are exceptions to the rule of karma in
our experience, yet even memories of trauma relating to those exceptions
will more readily rise to the surface, as the distractions from all karmic
considerations are constructively resolved.

There is so much more that could be said but this is
sufficient for now in this context of reflecting on Dr Ray’s life and
teachings. Let us endeavour to separate the wheat from the chaff, the yang
from the yin, recognise the tasks ahead of us, and embrace them.

Thank you once again, John, for helping us begin to
understand and begin to observe and receive. May we all recreate and
release accordingly.

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